In an era of repressive sexual politics, one filmmaker is calling out the MPAA for slapping her lesbian romance with an NC-17 rating. Director Anita Doran is outraged that her film Maya & Samar, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Anita Doron blasted the “shocking” decision by the MPAA to slap an NC-17 rating on “Maya & Samar,” an Athens-set romantic ...

About halfway through Maya & Samar, journalist Maya (Nicolette Pearse, in an impressive lead performance) is reminded of a warning her professor gave her in university about “stories crossing cultural ...

The title characters have a lot of sex in the new Canadian drama Maya & Samar, about two women from different cultures who share a life-changing, week-long affair in contemporary Athens. But it was ...

EXCLUSIVE: Serendipity Point Films (Eastern Promises) and January Media, along with their Greek partner Filmiki Productions, are underway in Athens, Greece, on feature Maya & Samar. Directed by Anita ...

The second week of April offers romance, suspense, and true-crime intrigue in theatres this week, offering moviegoers a compelling mix of stories to discover. A fresh take on romantic comedies, You, ...

Director Anita Doron blasted the “shocking” decision by the MPAA to slap an NC-17 rating on “Maya & Samar,” an Athens-set romantic drama about the torrid affair between a Canadian journalist and a ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...